For those who associate Altman with epic ensemble pieces, this harrowing, expressionistic chamber piece may come as a surprise. Susannah York gives an amazing performance as a children’s book author who journeys to the country for a brief vacation, only to find former and potential lovers (both living and dead) wandering the cavernous, isolated cottage. Altman creates an air of impending doom, immersing us in York’s hallucinatory world, until we are as disoriented as her, and, in the end, just as devastated. *Tentative